Word: balladeers
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...Dylan, Ballad of a Thin...
...less a mixture of drone and downward slur. The tone is softer, rounder; one note leads gracefully to the next, and the result is just as satisfying in its own way. Unexpectedly bending and holding notes like a crooner, Dylan gave a lyric, wistful quality to the traditional Irish ballad, Wild Mountain Thyme. He introduced no new songs, but older ones like It Ain't Me Babe, once intoned in harsh, jagged phrases, took on new colors and a smoother flow...
...least six songs entitled The Ballad of Mary Jo were submitted to New York publishers. Someone visiting the remote Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick carved TED & MARY in the bridge's wooden planks. Reporters and columnists kept up a flow of speculation that prompted the New York Times's James Reston, who agrees that Edward Kennedy's account of the fatal accident at Poucha Pond has not been satisfactory, to object that "he is being tried in the press before he gets to court...
Died. Douglas S. Moore, 75, composer and musicologist, who mined the fields of Americana in his popular operas, notably The Devil and Daniel Webster (1939), Giants in the Earth (1951), and The Ballad of Baby Doe (1956), which reconstructed the life of Colorado Silver King Horace Tabor; of pneumonia; in Greenport...
...Pinta and the Santa Maria would have had to be accompanied by a fleet of dispatch boats filled with scientists, singers and scribes. Each day, one of the boats would have returned to Spain to report on the voyage, and the court would have been entertained by a new ballad about Columbus' exploits...